Improvement in clothes-pounders



A. w. BUNNELL.

Improvement in Clothes-Founders. 128,531.

Patented July 2, 1872.

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OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO H. D. OROOKER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-POUN DERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,531, dated July 2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON W. BUNNELL, of Linesville Station, in the county of Crawford and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Clothes-Pounders and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The figure of the drawing is a representation of a vertical section of my invention.

My invention has relation to wash-pound ers; andit consists in the novel constructionof a device having a flaring rim, a fiat bottom, and a vertical handle, which extends to a level with the edge of said rim, said device being used in the manner and with the effect here inafter specified.

In the drawing, A designates the pounderhead, consisting of a funnel-shaped cup having a flat inner surface or partition, B, a rim, b, extending some distance below said bottom,

and a central tube, 0, through which passes a handle, D, extending down to a level with or below the edge of the rim b.

Thepounder is used in'the sameway as The wash-pounder having the partition B, A

conical flaring rim b, central tube 0, and handle D, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

AARON WHITED BUNNELL. Witnesses:

M. BISHOP, A. H. GRAFF.

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